Climate Data Sources |
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Australian data Near-surface Temperature Tropospheric Temperature Carbon Dioxide |
Ice Cores Sea Ice Extent Jetstream Winds |
| Australian data | Bureau of Meteorology (home page) - a starting point to lots of information. |
| Bureau of Meteorology (historical archive) - The BoM "Time series" webpage for a variety of data selections | |
| Near-surface Temperature | Climatic Research Unit (CRU) - Historical global and hemispheric average temperatures (just above "Answers to FAQs"). Read the notes about data format! |
| Hadley Centre data page index - index to a variety of data from the UK's Hadley Centre | |
| NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) - Station data - for graphs and historical temperature data for land-based stations around the world. | |
| NOAA's Global Surface Temperature Anomalies - ocean and land temperature anomalies (see links at the bottom of the page - but beware of the base period for the averages from which the anomalies are calculated). | |
| National Oceanographic Data Center - Ocean temperatures and more. | |
| NOAA's Sea Surface Temperatures - the monthly archive of sea surface temperatures (SST) and their anomalies are particularly good. | |
| British Antarctic Survey - Temperatures from the Antarctic. | |
| Tropospheric Temperature | NASA Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) - Notes on satellite measurements. (Temperature graphs have been removed from this page - why?) |
| Univ of Alabama Tropospheric Temperatures - ("Vortex" dataset) data listing for land, sea, combined, hemispheric etc. | |
| National Climate Data Center (data) - mirror of the above data page | |
| National Climate Data Center - home page for NCDC information about MSU-based temperatures, with links to data sources | |
| GHRC - data for global, hemispheric and 12-month averages (but not broken into land and sea) | |
| NOAA's RATPAC-A data - Access to radiosonde data from NOAA | |
| Sea Ice extent | The Cryosphere Today - constantly updated sea ice coverage in the Arctic and Antarctic with emphasis on regions in the Arctic. |
| Jetstream winds | CRWS Jetstream Analyses - From the California Weather Service and with links to archived data. |
| Carbon Dioxide | Trends online Carbon Dioxide - an inventory of data from monitoring sites around the world. |
| Ice Cores | World Data Center for Paleoclimatology - a little awkward but worth the effort. |
| Trends Online Vostok Temperature data - delivers what it says! | |